Chairman of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) Ramūnas Karbauskis isn’t backing down: will demand that the Social Democrats support all the proposed restrictions on the alcohol sales. Otherwise, R. Karbauskis warns that there […]
The ratings of Kaunas mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis are growing, Vladas Gaidys, who is the director of public opinion and market research centre „Vilmorus” said to LRT radio. This politician rose from the sixth place to […]
Leader of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats Gabrielius Landsbergis when talking about the increasingly stopping Government reforms retorted: there is no majority in the Parliament and Saulius Skvernelis is leading a minority Government. […]
Lithuania has some of the strictest alcohol control restrictions now but alcohol consumption in the country remains very high, says the Chairman of the public institution “European Social, Legal and Economic Projects” (ESTEP) Klaudijus Maniokas. […]
Algirdas Butkevičius, Juozas Olekas and Andrius Palionis should compete for the post of the leader of Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP). This was confirmed by the chairman of the party Gintautas Paluckas, who said that […]
Lately, we no longer gear arguments amongst Lithuanian political parties over larger strategic questions: they agree on energy, defence, they don’t argue over the new Labour Code. Political scientist Mažvydas Jastramskis didn’t criticize these tendencies: […]
Farmers and Greens Union policy of reducing alcohol availability is correct and should be continued. This has been stated by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe Gauden Galea, director of the Department […]
There are more cases when businessmen, who have all the necessary permits, have to stop the building of investment projects, when officials change their mind on permits that have been issued before. Prime Minister Saulius […]
This is how we could describe the expensive maintenance model of Klaipėda liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, which exceeds the needs of the country by several times, Lietuvos žinios reported. The LNG terminal maintenance fee […]
One third of the Lithuanians would temporarily emigrate from Lithuania. Mostly people go abroad to earn more money and get better opportunities for self-realization. A salary of 1000-1500 euros would probably keep the people in […]
The fourth term of Angela Merkel as the German chancellor would be a good sign for Lithuania and Europe because after “Brexit“, migrants and economic crisis stability is needed. In addition, A. Merkel’s position on […]
“Everything is created, all you have to do is start working” – says MEP (Member of the European Parliament) Viktor Uspaskich to LRT.lt, who recently announced the establishment of the Association “For a healthy and […]
Government program plans to move the taxes that are paid by the employers’ and merge them with the employees. The Government promised to tell how they were going to do that by the beginning of […]
The Victims of the Second World War are honoured on 8th of May in Europe and Russia does it a day later. This is why it was surprising when the Russian ambassador to Lithuania Aleksandr […]
I have always regarded my appointment as the first Defence Attaché to Lithuania as a reward for effort. I had been working at the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in London and commuting daily by train […]
United States Secretary of Defence James Mattis has visited Lithuania for the first time. The visit of a high ranking officer is another confirmation that America pays special attention to the security of the Baltic […]
The border is crossed by masked men in camouflage uniforms, the first wall of the border gives up without a fight. This is how Ala Davidova, a reporter of the Kremlin-controlled channel NTV, begins her […]
In terms of its religious tolerance Lithuania was markedly different from other European states in the 16th century and at the beginning of the 17th century. Yet gradually this tradition of tolerance was stifled and […]
The routines in Šalčininkai was disrupted by an unprecedented commotion on the 11th of April. Men armed with guns stormed the city police station, took over a part of it stunning the officials and local residents. […]
On Sunday Gazprom started constructing the “TurkStream” pipeline, which is another piece of the puzzle for Russia to supply gas to Western Europe by bypassing East European countries. Romas Švedas, who is an independent energy […]
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